Henri Vidal
Biography
Henri Vidal (26 November 1919 – 10 December 1959) was a French film actor. Henri Lucien Raymond Vidal was first noticed after he won the "Apollo of 1939" contest in Paris. He was spotted by Édith Piaf, and made his film debut alongside her in the movie Montmartre-sur-Seine in 1941. Vidal went on to appear in more than 30 films between 1941 and 1959. In addition to his wife, Michèle Morgan, he played opposite some of the biggest leading ladies in French films of the 1950s: Françoise Arnoul, Brigitte Bardot, Dany Carrel, Mylène Demongeot, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, and Marina Vlady. In May 1943 he married the actress Michèle Cordoba, and they divorced in July 1946. In 1950 he married French actress Michèle Morgan, whom he met while filming Alessandro Blasetti's 1949 film Fabiola. He died in 1959 of a heart attack. He is buried in Pontgibaud, in the Puy-de-Dôme départment. Source: Article "Henri Vidal" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Movie Appearances
Come Dance with Me!
as Hervé Dandieu
1959
The Gates of Paris
as Pierre Barbier
1957
La Parisienne
as Michel Legrand
1957
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
as l'inspecteur Jean Morel
1958
To Catch a Spy
as Francis Coplan
1957
An Angel on Wheels
as Pierre Chaillot
1959
Homeport
as Raymond
1943
Attila
as Aetius
1954
Angel of the Night
as Bob, le trésorier
1944
The Hell of Lost Pilots
as Captain Bertrand
1949
House on the Waterfront
as Michel
1955
The Damned
as Doctor Guilbert
1947
Pensione Edelweiss
as Jean Monnier
1959
Scampolo 53
1955
A Kiss for a Killer
as Philippe Delaroche
1957
The Strange Madame X
as Étienne
1951
Fabiola
as Rhual
1949
The Wicked Go to Hell
as Pierre Macquart
1955
Série noire
as L'inspecteur Léo Fardier
1955
The Seven Deadly Sins
as Doctor Henri / Antonin (segment "La Gourmandise")
1952
